From heise.de:

Six years after the project was launched, developers at the Xiph.Org Foundation have released a beta version of the free video codec called Ogg Theora. The source code of the libtheora 1.0 Beta 1 codec library can be downloaded from the developer website.

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It’s the very first episode of Tekzilla: Jessica Corbin and Patrick Norton.

This is definitely something that will be added to my list of shows to watch.  I haven’t seen the episode, but it’s a cross between dl.tv, and The Screensavers from the old TechTV days.

I’m guessing it will be a quite successful show.

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This is the second major Google security vulnerability to be revealed this week. On Monday, security researcher Fernando Bedford provided a proof-of-concept exploit for a Google cross-site scripting vulnerability in Google’s Blogspot polls API that facilitated e-mail hijacking and address book sniffing. That vulnerability was fixed by Google shortly after it was reported, but it is presently unclear whether or not the vulnerability discovered by Petkov has been fixed yet.

At least these security issues bring attention to security as a whole; preventing people from becoming too lax in the area of security.

Serious cross-site request forgery vulnerability found in Gmail

Two FCC commissioners showed up to a Senate hearing yesterday and argued that the US is in dire need of a "national broadband strategy" that would bring universal access and more competition to the increasingly-important broadband market.

I’m pretty sure they will screw this up somehow.

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You can look forward to more posts, and more updates in the days to come.

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Chinese scientists have announced that the have made a successful test of a fusion reactor.

The reaction is done using deuterium, and tritium atoms; this is the currently accepted way of doing this procedure.

The temerature reached form the fusion was 100 million Celsius (still a ways from the heat of the sun…)

The first tests lasted nearly three seconds, and generated an electrical current of 200 kiloamperes, Wan Yuanxi, general manager of EAST, told Xinhua.

The experiments were continuing, he said.

The device is planned to eventually create a plasma lasting 1,000 consecutive seconds, the longest a fusion reactor has ever run.

Wan said the deuterium extracted from one liter of seawater could produce energy equivalent to that generated by burning 300 liters of gasoline thanks to the fusion technology.

Check out the full article here.

It looks like Amazon.com has accidentally leaked their new video site onto the public internet by using an obscure URL that was found by Google.

I wonder if the Amazon video store will be able to compete with anything that Apple can offer over the iTunes video store.

There will be some heated competition in the legal digital movie download services coming soon. I have a feeling that youtube.com will release something similar someday soon.

Link to images.

Of Course, all of this may be a complete farce though….

According to MarketWatch Dell Inc. has announced that it will offer AMD’s Athlon chip in its Dimension computer line starting next month. This ends a long, and exclusive partnership with Intel.

This is an impressive move from Dell. It means that it is less reliant on Intel, and may include some cost savings for Dell.

Another benefit may be a reduced cost for it’s graphics chips now that AMD has purchased ATI. I wonder what Nvidia is thinking of this; they can’t be very comfortable with the relationship that has been created here.

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This is a little disturbing, but well known that this would happen. The interesting thing from this article is that if the Greenland ice sheet were to completely melt, sea levels would rise by 21 feet (6.5 meters).

The melting is three times faster than expected from previous data.

One thing that was gleaned from this article:

A number of factors contribute to fluctuations in the Earth’s gravity field.

But once the influence of the atmosphere and the oceans is removed, the variations mostly reflect changes in the mass of ice sheets and of water stored in the ground.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4783199.stm

There isn’t too much information on this but this is what I have so far:

An Ariane-5 rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Friday, putting into orbit a Japanese civilian communications satellite and a French military communications satellite, officials said.

I wonder what the total count of operating satellites that are orbiting earth is at? I can only imagine that it is getting a little crowded up there!

Full Article here.